During the twilight days of 1998, small articles tucked away in the
nether regions of the British press quietly announced that “Unknown
Force Was Behind Corn Circles, Claims Hoaxer.” This dramatic U-turn
by the surviving member of the infamous Doug and Dave—the English
sexagenarians who, since 1991, have misled the world with tales of
their crop-flattening prowess with planks of wood—illustrates that
the hand of man materialized in crop-circle lore long after the real
phenomenon manifested.

Although hoaxers claim to have orchestrated the phenomenon in 1978,
unpublished evidence at the time showed approximately 200 reports of
crop circles being created around the world throughout the 20th
century, with dozens of eyewitnesses reporting crop circles forming
in a matter of seconds as far back as 1890. Several highly
descriptive accounts were even documented in 1678 by Robert Plot,
the then-curator of the Ashmolean Library in Oxford, England.

To date, some 10,000 crop circles have been catalogued in 29
countries worldwide, and their anomalous features continue to defy
human replication. They include plants bent an inch above soil;
stems lightly burned around the base; the evaporation of
ground-water; the crystalline structure of the plants and the soil
altered by the rapid application of electromagnetic or sonic
frequencies with the pressure of several atmospheres; dowsable,
long-lasting energy patterns in and around the designs, not to
mention hundreds of effects on the human biological field – such as
increased right brain activity, multiple menstruation cycles in
women, healing of retinal tumors – many of them scientifically
monitored.

So much, then, for two guys and a piece of wood. But thanks to a
virtual embargo on media coverage on crop circle research – for the
most part due to well-planned debunking by the British military and
skeptical articles introduced into the media by fictitious press
agencies – a myth has developed that all crop circles have been
nothing more than a “prank with a plank.”

By definition, a hoax is a forgery, and a forger requires an
original from which to copy. So what is this 'unknown force' that
creates genuine crop circles? One answer may lie with sound.

SOUND , THE FOUNDATION OF LIFE

Traditionally, sound is considered to be a prime universal force in the
creation of matter. This concept is echoed in all faiths and traditions:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,” says not only
the Christian Bible, but also the Islamic Q’ran and the Hindu Rig Veda. In
a similar way, Hopi and Navajo religious traditions assert that, in
ancient times, shamans could utter words onto sand and create orderly
geometric patterns. This idea of sound expressing itself in geometric form
is seen in the Hindu mandalas, those geometric sand and textile paintings
that the Hindu believe are expressions of vibrations from the unseen
universe. And because the heavenly realms were believed to be the domain
of the Gods, the ancients chose to call these orderly expressions sacred
geometry.

Consequently, the Eastern faiths—Islam in particular—chose this sacred
geometry to express the image of God in their life – in art, mosques, even
the very furniture they lived with. In the 12th century, these geometric
principles were encoded in the design of Gothic cathedrals, and their
application is now understood to be a kind of spiritual technology which
enhances the buildings’ sonic effects, for the singular purpose of
creating sympathetic vibrations on the human body. Since the body is
itself a series of geometric forms (as exemplified by Leonardo Da Vinci’s
famous drawing of the outstretched man), its interaction with other forms
of geometry allows for the enhancement of higher levels of awareness while
the devotee prays within the cathedral’s sacred space.

Geometry, sound, resonance, and vibration are fundamental to our
supposedly physical world. For instance, when the primeval Hindu sound—the
OM (from which is derived our modern term “hum”)—is sung into a tonoscope
(a device for converting the human voice into visible form) it creates
geometric shapes such as pentagrams, hexagrams, even complex mandalas.

Such well-known geometric shapes are also found in the microscopic world
of atoms. Thanks to advancements in technology we can now see how atoms
are not as solid as once believed, but tiny harmonic resonators whose
molecules dance in geometric rhythms around a central node. And these
rhythms often trace out the shape of the pentagram and the hexagram. What
is interesting is that the geometric relationships and proportions found
in the molecular world are related to the vibratory intervals governing
the notes of the pure music scale. For example, the gap in the frequency
between the notes C (261 vibrations per second) and G (312 vibrations per
second) can also be represented geometrically as a pentagram.

Physical reality, it now appears, is governed by geometric arrays that are
directly related to sound frequencies.

CROP CIRCLES YIELD NEW GEOMETRIC THEOREMS

One of the mathematical minds studying crop circles was the late Prof.
Gerald Hawkins. In February of 1992, he published an interesting challenge
in Science News. Professor Hawkins had studied the work of Euclid, a Greek
mathematician of the third-century BC whose treatises still form the basis
of our knowledge of mathematics today. He used the principles of Euclid to
prove that four geometric theorems can be derived from the relationships
of crop circle designs. More significantly, he eluded to a previously
unknown fifth theorem from which he could derive the other four, a theorem
that Euclid himself had not even discovered.

Hawkins challenged Science News’ 250,000 readers to come up with this
fifth theorem, but no one was able to create it. Needless to say. it came
as a shock when the theorem later materialized as a 160,000 sq. ft. crop
circle at Litchfield, England, in 1995. Incredibly, the theorem did not
appear overtly, but had to be decoded from within the design.

By 1995, crop circles bearing other unmistakable
associations with sound began to appear. One contained a curious design
feature resembling a ratchet. Connecting all the points of the design
reveals a diagram – the Lambdoma– which dates to the ancient Egyptian
Mysteries schools. This musical diagram, also known as the Pythagorean
Table, defines the exact relationships between the harmonics of musical
notes and the mathematical ratios that govern them.

This is accomplished by translating sound
frequencies in hertz relative to each musical interval into feet, which
generates this circular mandala. But it was a convincing crop circle
etched in barley at Goodwood Clatford, England, in 1996 that gave the
proverbial nod to sound by reproducing a cymatic pattern.

PATTERNS FROM SOUND

Cymatics is the study of sound waves and their interaction with physical
substances. One of its modern pupils was Swiss scientist Hans Jenny who,
throughout the 1950s and ‘60s, captured on film the effects of sound as it
interacted with powders and liquids.

He observed that a low frequency produced a simple circle encompassed by
rings whereas a higher frequency increased the number of concentric rings
around a central circle. As the frequencies rose so, too, did the
complexity of shapes, to the point where tetrahedrons, mandalas, and other
geometric forms could be discerned.

Jenny also provided a physical connection to the creation of crop circles,
as many of the vibrational patterns captured in his photos mimic their
designs: from the simple circle surrounded by concentric rings, typical of
early 1980s designs, to the tetrahedron and the complex star fractals of
the 1990s.

Visually, then, the connection between crop circles and sound is
undeniable. But what evidence links sound and crop circles at a physical
level?

THE SOUND OF CROP CIRCLES

Accounts from the 80 eyewitnesses who’ve seen crop
circles manifesting describe a trilling sound prior to or during the
manifestation of crop circles. This unusual noise, which is described as
sounding like a cross between a cicada and a waterfall, was eventually
captured on magnetic tape in 1989 during a night watch of a field at
Cheesefoot Head, England, by a group of researchers.
It was duly sent to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA,
where it was brought to the attention of Robert Weiss, the man who had
previously analyzed the famous Watergate Tapes. He concluded that the
noise was not related to any type of bird or insect. In fact, due to its
looping, rhythmic nature, it appeared to be of intelligent, mechanical
origin. Further, it contained a frequency of 5.0-5.2 kHz.

Later that summer, the trilling sound was captured again, this time
by a BBC cameraman while recording an interview inside a crop circle. A
few seconds after its appearance, it rendered his $55,000 camera obsolete.
According to the technicians who later rebuilt the equipment, the sound
frequency had interfered with the circuitry to such a degree that the
camera would not work after that episode.
Interestingly, Australian Aborigines have been imitating the crop circle
trilling sound for generations. During ceremonies to contact their “sky
spirits”, the Aborigines attach a specially-shaped piece of wood called
bora to the end of a long string. It is whirled around, creating a noise
practically identical to the crop circle sound. Research later revealed
that not only have crop circles appeared in Australia, but they are also
described in Aboriginal myths, just as their geometries appear in ancient
Aboriginal rock paintings.
In the 1950s, American agricultural researcher George Smith found that
exposing cornstalks to sound produced a higher heat content in its soil,
as well as a slight burnt appearance at the base of the stalks. Such
effects are consistent with the effects found in crop circles, where the
soil is always noticeably drier—in some cases even baked—than the rest of
the field, and the affected stalks are slightly charred just above the
soil.
Oddly enough, Smith speculated that particular sound frequencies actually
increased molecular activity in plants. Three decades later, tests
performed by physicist Dr. W. Levengood have proved that whatever energy
is creating crop circles is affecting seed embryo and plant growth by
interfering with the plants’ natural growth cycle. This energy also
elongates the plants’ nodes and even alters their crystalline structure
(the plants’ form at a molecular level).

Levengood has attributed these changes
to the plants in crop circles to microwaves. However, microwaves have the
ability to render biological systems sterile, and an overdose will even
kill organisms. Crop circles plants, on the other hand, remain alive and
well.

Conversant with discoveries by Russian scientists
throughout the 1930s that certain sound frequencies noticeably affected
the growth of both plants and seeds, in the 1960s Mary Measures and Paul
Weinberger at the University of Ottawa, Canada, succeeded in accelerating
growth in wheat by playing sound to the plants. But the sound also
produced a resonant effect in the plants’ cells, thereby affecting their
metabolism. And the frequency which created these effects was identical to
the crop circle trilling noise: 5 kHz.
Perhaps the greatest connection linking sound to the manifestation of crop
circles, however, lies in their greatest anomaly: the permanent bending of
the plants' stems. In 1968, laboratory experiments at Temple Buell
College, CO, measured the effects of music on plants by subjecting them to
different tones. Exposure to heavy metal music made the plants tilt away
from the speakers or die, whereas classical music lulled the plants to
lean toward the speakers. But in the case of Hindu devotional music, the
stems bent in excess of 60° to the vertical and towards the speakers,
perhaps the closest anyone has ever come to recreating the right-angle
bend found in the plant stems in genuine crop circles.
Interestingly, applications of Indian devotional song to plants during the
1930s at Annamalai University, India, also showed a number of similar
biophysical changes to those which occur in plants analyzed by Dr.
Levengood, as mentioned earlier.

CREATING A CROP CIRCLE

Sound, then, may be capable of creating crop
circles. But how does it achieve those highly complex designs found in
crop circles today? This can be achieved by ultrasound.

Ultrasound can be aimed like a laser beam, and such focusing allows for
certain kinds of molecules to vibrate while others nearby are left
unmoved. This is due to the frequencies inherent in ultrasound –
frequencies the MHz range which, thanks to their very narrow wavebands,
have the ability to hone in on a specific area.

Evidence of such high frequencies have been detected inside crop circles
since 1991 by the researcher Paul Vigay, whose custom-built electronic
device has measured readings which generally range between 260 and 320
MHz. Vigay’s research also found that, since 1996, the frequencies
detected inside crop circles have increased to 640 MHz, even 1.2 GHz,
which coincides with the increased geometric complexity of the designs
themselves. This mirrors Jenny's experiments, which show that a
relationship exists between the complexity of cymatic geometries and the
dispensed sound frequencies. In other words, the higher the frequency, the
greater the geometric intricacy.

The high frequencies common to ultrasound are known to affect states of
awareness in humans, and visitors to crop formations often report an
inability to properly perform analytical or left brain functions. In fact,
a number of Japanese scientists who’ve conducted monitored EEG tests
inside crop circles show how there is a tendency for the intuitive or
right brain to be far more active in people when they are within the space
of a crop circle. It is interesting to compare this effect with Neolithic
sacred spaces, namely standing stones and stone circles, which have a long
history of association with altered states of awareness. Experiments to
monitor energy fields in standing stones during the 1970s in England by
Dan Robbins revealed that these sacred stones emit ultrasonic frequencies.

Because ultrasound operates within a specific
bandwidth, it can be used as a sensitive tool that prevents damage to
sensitive tissue, again by focusing its frequencies on a specific area
rather than the whole. Consequently, it is today used in healing,
particularly in the treatment of muscular ailments. The parallel to crop
circles lies in the way the delicate plants have been manipulated with and
yet show no visible signs of damage. What’s more, hundreds of people have
reported being healed after interacting with crop circles – either by
visiting one or by looking at a photograph. This includes a long-time
sufferer of Parkinson’s, who experienced the complete absence of shaking,
and a person with a 99% malignant eye tumor, who saw the tumor shrivel
away after ingesting the seeds from a crop circle.

Below 20 Hz, sound becomes infrasonic. Such low frequencies influence
biological processes because they resonate physical objects at the
molecular level. Experiments throughout the 1980s at Princeton’s P.E.A.R
laboratory demonstrate that, when combined with high air pressure, the
acoustic power of infrasound can boil water inside a hollow cavity in one
nanosecond (called “vapor cavitation”).

As water heats it expands. In the case of crop
circles plants, if one looks closely at the affected stems, one can see
tiny holes in their nodes (the plant’s “knuckles”), indicating that the
boiled water has expanded and blown outwards through the nodes - at which
point the base of the stems become as supple as molten glass, enabling the
plants to collapse under their own weight into their extreme horizontal
position.

The rapid boiling of the water tallies with
Levengood's discovery of microscopic blow-holes in the plants' cell wall
pits which indicates a rapid boiling of water inside the plant has taken
place. The low frequencies of infrasound can tear water molecules apart,
atomizing them into a fine mist. Farmers in both England and Canada have
witnessed columns of mist rising from within newly-arrived crop circles,
suggesting this process is indeed at play in the fields.

The lower the operating frequency of infrasound,
the greater its effect on physical elements. Below 18 Hz the acoustic
pressure formed by infrasound is known to disrupt chromosomes. Every
summer, plants from crop circles and normal agricultural plots are sent to
Dr. Levengood. The samples are blind-tested so as to conceal their exact
origin, a standard scientific protocol to prevent the tampering of
laboratory tests. And after thousands of tests, Levengood consistently
finds unmistakable disruption to the chromosomes of plants taken from crop
circles.

A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS

The ancients once held sound to be the prime
creator of matter in the Universe, yet we have had to wait, in modern
times, for individuals such as Hans Jenny to provide a measured
understanding of what sound looks like and how it behaves. Given our
knowledge of how sound can not only influence plants and the molecules of
the physical world but also the awareness of a human being, is it possible
that, in the crop circles, we are witnessing energy forms capable of
arousing the spirituality in humanity?

Sound, when modelled into music, becomes a powerful carrier for social
change – the effects of Handel's music is believed to have reversed the
state of morality in Victorian England, just as the anarchic overtones of
Punk corralled disillusioned youth into fighting an establishment that
held no tolerance for those who stepped outside its rules. It is through
music that human experiences are celebrated and carried forward from
generation to generation.

Perhaps it's no coincidence that a large percentage of crop circle designs
can be identified with, and by, ancient cultures who to this day honour
their histories through song and music, their healing rituals performed
with sound. This relationship is applied in Buddhist mandalas, whose
elaborate geometries are used to alter states of consciousness. Certainly
it is no coincidence that crop circle designs mirror these intricate
patterns, just as they bear an uncanny familiarity to Jenny's
materializations of sound.

If sound is one of the formative principles behind crop circles, they are
not only leaving behind physical clues in the plants, but also creating a
change in awareness on those whose antenna is extended and receptive to
their tune. There is no doubt that our present worldview is undergoing
tumultuous change, and at such times, the collective subconscious of
humanity reaches out for guidance. Because our thoughts are
electromagnetic pulses which transcend time and space, it is possible that
our request has been received, and information is manifesting in fields
around the world.

Using sound as a foundation of crop circles is the most direct form of
communication, because sound is capable of affecting the resonant fields
within intercellular processes down into the genetic levels, even down
into the subatomic levels. Suggestive and rhythmic commands aimed at
people while they listen to music is already an efficient method of
absorbing information and knowledge. Coupled to ultrasonic frequencies,
this technique can alter brainwave patterns, inducing the mind into a
meditative and receptive state.

More Crop Circles Links

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